Right and wrong used to be the way I would frame my internal questions. “What an asshole, that guy shouldn’t have cut me off on the highway!” “What’s the best way to solve this problem?” That kind of thing.

How I concluded this is the best way to run a life is always in my mind. Until recently, framing experience relatively never really occurred to me. When I realize my thoughts often still seek the absolute, I ask myself “why?” and I feel like I do this constantly.

Judgment is probably the reason for my old thinking habits. If I recognize the concept of right and wrong, it’s easy to say I’m somehow better than someone else. You know, ego — that pesky thing.

I don’t want to be this way. 25 years ago I decided engineering decision-making processes weren’t good life guidelines and I stopped bothering with “efficiencies,” whatever that means. Today it’s time to change even more, and continue into the realm of thinking less and doing more. But what does that even mean?

Maybe it doesn’t matter.